Chapter – 9 Bullying System? (Patreon)

Having defeated the trio of Ryota, Kazama, and Hiroshi, Tatsumi was walking through the forest while reflecting on the battle.

Suddenly, a notification appeared in front of his eyes followed by a mechanical voice, [Ding, Congratulations Host for defeating the Uchiha trio. For obtaining the first victory in a battle between Shinobi, a special reward of 1,500 points is rewarded to the Host.

Current Balance: 2,890 + 1,500 = 4,390 Points.]

As soon as he heard the notification, Tatsumi came to a sudden halt, “There are points for defeating others?” a symbol of points appeared in his eyes as he thought of something, “Does that mean…?”

He wanted to exclaim in joy, and he wanted to give a big fat kiss to System.

Tatsumi couldn’t control himself, he felt itchy in his hands and got ready to immediately turn around and give some fists of love to the Uchiha trio.

Those three… no… not only those three… but countless people in this world just became stepping stones for him to find a cute girl and live a relaxing life in the future!

‘Stupid kids… accept my iron fist of love!’

The system seems to have seen through Tatsumi’s intention, and just as he decided to turn around, it dropped a bucket of cold water on Tatsumi’s hot ambitions.

[There are no points for defeating the same person in short intervals.]

“Huh? What? Doesn’t that mean that if I go and defeat them now, I won’t get any points?” asked Tatsumi with a tearful expression.

[Yes, there won’t be any points.]

“You lousy System… I want my cheat! Why are you robbing me of my rights?!” shouted Tatsumi. He felt that System intentionally imposed this condition.

[……] There was no response from System, which further solidified Tatsumi’s doubts.

Seeing that System was maintaining a silence, Tatsumi sighed, and after taking a few deep breaths, he questioned with a doubtful expression, “Then… how long should the interval be? One day? Two days?”

He wants to obtain as many points as he can in order to increase his talent in all the attributes, and those trio of Uchiha are good sources of points, so he needed to know the answer to this question.

[Only when the other party’s strength has increased, the host can harvest more points by defeating the same opponent.] answered System.

“When strength is increased?” muttered Tatsumi with a doubtful expression, and asked, “And how do you measure the increased strength?”

[As long as the level of an attribute increases in the enemy, it will be counted as increased strength.]

“I see,” nodded Tatsumi with a thoughtful expression, then asked another question, “Does that mean if their strength doesn’t increase at all in their lifetime, I won’t be able to obtain even a single more point?”

[Yes] nodded System, and added, [So the system suggests that Host defeats other people, not just the Uchiha trio.]

“That’s no good System-kun, you are trying to make me lead on the path of no return… at this rate, I will become the biggest bully in Konoha!” said Tatsumi in a dissatisfied tone. But internally, he was salivating… just by defeating people he can obtain more and more points, isn’t that too good?

But Tatsumi has to say, whoever made this System must have some dangerous hobby of bullying others.

But no way… who made this world so dangerous?

For his own sake and for their greater good, he has no choice but to walk this path of no return.

“Fellow little children, if you must hate someone… hate the System for making it this way, and hate the author making such a System… I am innocent, and whatever I will be doing is for my own greater good!” spoke Tatsumi as he determined to tread the path of no return.

…

After that short little episode with the System, Tatsumi continued to walk and after he reached his training area, he started to train.

Currently, he is only training his physique. It’s very simple.

Start with the Saitama-style training which includes 100 pushups, 100 situps, 100 squats, and 10 Km run.

Now although Saitama-style training can make anyone invincible, because Tatsumi doesn‘t want to go bald, therefore, instead of doing 100 pushups, he does, 99 pushups, instead of 100 situps, he does 99 situps, instead of 100 squats, he does 99 squats, and instead of a 10 Km run, he does a 9 Km run.

Because he gives up that 1 in everything, his strength can not be as great as the legendary Baldy, but Tatsumi has no regret in that regard, after all, appearance matters more, strength can be attained with hard work, but appearance can not be attained… once he goes bald, then he goes bald, there is no changing that.

So, after finishing the incomplete Saitama-style workout, which is his warmup, Tatsumi does other physical exercises such as punching and kicking wooden stakes, walking on hand, and climbing mountains, et cetera.

These are simple and practical exercises for his age and increase his physical strength.

Of course, increased physical strength is not the only benefit, there are other good things.

From time to time, system notification echoes in his mind.

[Ding, congratulations Host for completing 1000 kicks, reward 2 points.]

[Ding, congratulations Host for completing 1000 punches, reward 2 points.]

In this manner, time continued to pass, and before Tatsumi had realized two hours had passed.

Soaked in sweat, Tatsumi took a break and eat his Bento.

Where did the Bento come from?

The bento is delivered by Mikoto.

Mikoto knows that Tatsumi trains arduously in this part of the forest, so to make sure that he doesn’t have to worry about hunger in the middle of his training, she quietly comes here, delivers the Bento, and leaves for her own training without disturbing him.

“Sure… being taken care of by a cute girl is the best feeling in the world.” Muttered Tatsumi with a smile. At the same time, he felt pity for all the single dogs who don’t have a cute girl.

‘Come to think of it, does the author have a cute girl?’ he thought for a moment, then shook his head, ‘Nah… I don’t think he has.’

Anyway, putting aside the thoughts of the pitiful author, Tatsumi opened the well-prepared Bento and started eating it, and while eating, checked the status of his point balance.

[Current Balance: 4410 Points]

The Physical Index is already at Level 3, and if Tatsumi wants to further increase its level, then he would have to spend 2000 points.

In order to not permanently become a girl he needs to raise one of his attributes to Level 8, this mission would have been difficult if Tatsumi did not learn the new methods of earning points, but now that he has figured out various methods of easily earning points… by making achievements and by bullying the pitiful children, he knows that this task is not at all difficult anymore.

After all, there would be hundreds of children in the Ninja Academy, and there would be multiple tests, competitions, and other events in which he can earn a lot of points.

So, there wouldn’t be any shortage of points for the time being, and he needs to improve other attributes as well in order to increase his overall strength.

Even if his current Physical Index is 3, making him one of the best among the trainees at the Academy, just being physically strong isn’t enough, there are various methods of dealing with people who are physically strong.

In fact, until your physical skills are overwhelmingly powerful (at Level 15 and above), they can be easily dealt with using powerful Ninjutsu and Genjutsu, and shinobi who only practice Taijutsu becomes quite vulnerable.

Although Might Duy, Might Guy, and Rock Lee broke this law, that was also under the premise of using a forbidden Jutsu.

If there was no Hachiman Tonkou, Might Guy wouldn’t have been able to defeat even Kisame, let alone fight someone like Madara in Six Path Mode.

Even now, if Tatsumi’s Shurikenjutsu was as good as Itachi's in his prime, then Tatsumi didn’t need to use his superb speed at all, he would have been able to scare away the Uchiha trio with much more ease.

How cool would that have been?

Won’t cute girls swoon over him in that situation more?

And beyond Shurikenjutsu, if he had used superb Genjutsu, then he didn’t even need to move his hands. Just by standing he could have become a nightmare for the Uchiha trio just like Itachi became a nightmare for Deidara, leaving a lifelong shadow on him.

Mastery of Genjutsu would also give him a mysterious vibe, and cute girls love mysterious people.

As Uchiha Shisui’s father, Tatsumi has to make a master in Genjutsu, otherwise, how can he stand up to his son’s reputation?

So, these aspects have to be mastered at any cost.

If Tatsumi wants to stay at the top of the food chain (at the Ninja Academy) he needs to be the best in all aspects, lest someone, who is a specialist/perfectionist in an attribute would best him, after all, countless people would be eyeing his throne.

The two top contenders will naturally be the silly Nawaki and the sunny Minato, they are sure to give him tough competition.

To become the bully and not get bullied in return, he must have appropriate strength, otherwise, it would be too shameful. He doesn’t want to face a situation where the oppressed(bullied) unite under a single banner and overthrow him.

So to be the top dog, and be surrounded by cute girls, he needs to develop his abilities in all attributes. Shortcomings in any attribute are neither allowed nor acceptable.

Of course, Tatsumi knows that he can’t become a master of everything at the same time, he has to put effort and points into attributes one by one, and he will be starting with Shurikenjutsu and Genjutsu.

Although he doesn’t have anyone to teach him these things, his deadbeat dad was a strong person before he went to buy milk and ended up dying god knows where, so he left behind a lot of scrolls.

As long as he adds points to these attributes and increases his talent, he can reap incredible results.

With such a thought, Tatsumi consumed 1000 points to raise the level of Shurikenjutsu to 3.

[ -Attribute- Shurikenjutsu (LV 2 --> LV 3)]

[Congratulations Host for advancing to Level 3 in Shurikenjutsu. Hosts’ speed of drawing Shuriken, speed, power, and precision of throwing, as well as understanding of Shurikenjutsu, have increased.]

Then consumed another 1600 points to increase the Genjutsu level from 0 to 3.

[ -Attribute- Genjutsu (LV 0 --> LV 1 --> LV 2 --> LV 3)]

[Congratulations Host for advancing to Level 3 in Genjutsu. Hosts’ understanding of Genjutsu has increased.]

Finally, he spend another 600 points to increase the Ninjutsu Level from 0 to 2.

[ -Attribute- Ninjutsu (LV 0 --> LV 1 --> LV 2)]

[Congratulations Host for advancing to Level 3 in Physical Index. Hosts’ understanding of Shape Transformation has increased.]

After he spend the points, Tatsumi checked his Status.

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Host: Uchiha Tatsumi

Nationality: Land of Fire

Age: 5 years old

Comprehensive strength index, Ordinary Student.

Chakra Reserves: Level 2 (0/1000)

Physical Index: level 3 (0/2000)

Shurikenjutsu: Level 3 (0/2000)

Hand Sign Weaving Speed: level 2 (0/1000)

Ninjutsu: level 2 (0/1000)

Genjutsu: Level 3 (0/2000)

Wind Release: level 0 (0/100)

Fire Release: level 0 (0/100)

Thunder Release: level 0 (0/100)

Water Release: level 0 (0/100)

Earth Release: level 0 (0/100)

Yang Release: level 0 (0/100)

Yin Release: level 0 (0/100)

Balance ninja points: 1210 points